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Article: Audrey Hepburn.
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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AUDREY HEPBURN, by Diana Maychick (Birch Lane Press, 247 p.) proves that, while it's comparatively easy to rhapsodize about Hepburn's elegance, good looks and generous spirit, it's ultimately not quite so easy to come to grips with her real personality. Maychick was a columnist for The New York Post, and she writes very well, but her image of Audrey Hepburn isn't complete, and perhaps that's inevitable for someone who hadn't ever worked with her.
What Maychick does extremely well is to chart Audrey's slow development from awkward young dancer to glamorous film star, not only in her looks and her behavior but also within herself, particularly once she had met ...